Pain Screening
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PAIN MANAGEMENT: JUST DO IT
The literature on pain management lists a litany of reasons why pain goes under-detected and under-treated in nursing homes-lack of staff time, lack of staff knowledge, communication barriers, cultural barriers, social barriers-the list goes on until it, quite frankly, it begins to sound like a bunch of lame excuses for inaction.
In fact, says Dr. Michael Gloth, associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, "There is no reason for folks to be suffering with pain on a daily basis. We have the tools to take care of it, the knowledge to take care it, we just need to do it (7)."
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